Wilma Lynne Cherry

**** **** ****** **. ******** • TX • 78102 •

ac3ex2@r.postjobfree.com

Phone Home 361-***-**** Cell 936-***-****

Traits: Caring, Dependable, Ethical, Knowledgeable, Reliable

SUMMARY:

Wilma Lynne Cherry M.S.N.APRN, BC-FNP

Family Nurse Practitioner:

I love caring for my patients. It has been my life’s work to care for others. I have had 40 years’ experience in the medical field and have been privileged to work with other healthcare professionals to promote wellness and

health. I have especially enjoyed practicing throughout the rural communities. My training, expertise, and life experience has led me to where I am now in my career.

EDUCATION:

General Education Courses

Bear River High

Garland, Utah

Graduated 1975

General Education

Utah State University

Logan, Utah

Two years Completion

Associate of Science in Nursing (LPN)

Weber State University

Associate of Science in Nursing (RN)

Weber State University

Bachelor Science in Nursing

Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi

Master’s of Science in Nursing

Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi

Inducted into the International Nursing Honor Society: Signa Theta Thau

American Nurses Credentialing Center: Specializing in Family Nurse Practitioner

Post Graduate Education in Medical School

IUHS

Ogden, Utah

Graduated 1984

Ogden, UT

Graduated 1985

Corpus Christi, TX

Graduated 1996

Corpus Christi, TX

Graduated 1998

ANCC

Obtained 1998-Present

St. Kitts IUHS

Two Years Completion

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Twin Fountains, Family Nurse Practitioner, Beeville and Rockport TX (March 2016- October 10, 2017)

Management of urgent care patients ranging from pediatric to geriatric

Caring for patients with multiple medical problems

Care of minor lacerations and injuries

Management of patients with multiple medical problems

Certified in Department of Transportation Physical Examinations (DOT),Workers Compensation patients.

I worked in Hemphill, Texas in a practice that was bought out 3 times over 6 years with different physicians. I will try to communicate the best I can. The practice had 5,000 active patients in a rural clinic.

Complete Health Care/Hemphill Clinic, Family Nurse Practitioner, Hemphill TX, (April 2015-March 2016)

Active Primary Care Provider (PCP) accepting several insurances in collaboration with consulting physician.

Preceptor for clinical residency with Texas A&M and the University of Texas UTM Medical Branch of Galveston, where I teach Nurse Practitioners in the clinical setting.

Family practice of individuals in all ages and stages including Medicaid and Children’s Texas Health Steps program and Texas State Vaccine program as well as Women’s and Men’s health.

Identify, educate, treat, and make a difference in patient’s lives who suffer from chronic diseases including Asthma (pediatric and adult), COPD, Diabetes type 1 and type 2, HTN, CHF, Anemia, IBS, Obesity, Hyperlipidemia, CAD, etc..

Certified to perform DOT physical examinations with the State of Texas, Women’s pelvic examinations, breast examinations, PAP smears, Women’s birth control, general yearly physical examinations for men and women.

Manage patients who have chronic and acute illnesses including pneumonia, as well as children with croup and RSV. Management includes identifying patients who need a higher level of care and facilitate in their transfer or referral to specialist.

Experienced and accomplished in wound care, procedures include: suture, incision and drainage, removal of common skin lesions, biopsies, cryofreeze lesions, toe nail removal, trigger point injections among others.

Case managing home health agencies in collaboration with consulting physician, with four different home agencies with over 100 patient’s total.

Provide face-to-face encounters to coordinate care of Hospice, Palliative, and Home Health care.

Charting documentation on all patients into EMR computer programs

Order and evaluate results from labs, x-rays, and other diagnostic procedures.

Medically manage patients using medical history, perform physical examinations, and adjusting medicines.

Manage Staff and Nurses within Clinic.

Mid County Medical, Family Nurse Practitioner Hemphill TX, (October 2009-April 2015)

Collaborated with Dr.’s Grover C. Winslow Jr. and Michael McMahan, of Mid County Medical, in addition to medically treat patients at the Hemphill family medicine clinic.

Family Practice on patients in a busy clinic.

Worked as the only Provider (for a year and a half) at the Pineland Clinic.

Cared for 30+ nursing home patients who needed close monitoring.

Assisted in coordinating three home health agencies as well as two hospice agencies.

Responsible for daily hospital rounds to check on patients.

Assisted Dr. Winslow in admission, performed admit history and physical examination, dictating these and discharge summaries.

Brownsville Children’s Clinic Company, Family Nurse Practitioner, Brownsville, TX (May 2006-October 2009)

Collaborated with Dr. Asim Zamir and other Nurse Practitioners in a very busy pediatric clinic- the clinic saw an average of 350 patients on average/day (ages ranged from new born - 21 years).

Performed well-child examinations and cared for common pediatric illnesses.

Treated patients of mostly Hispanic culture, with some Spanish translation provided.

Worked quickly and efficiently, while making sure patients were well cared for and satisfied with their care.

Nurse Practitioner, at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Garza East/West/McConnel Units Beeville TX (2002-2006)

Managed the wellness and chronic care of high-level security prison inmates.

Intake examinations on new inmates.

Treated patients with severe chronic illnesses including HIV, Hepatitis C, Syphilis, COPD, DM, HTN, etc.

Ensured treatment took into consideration the safety of employees, officers and other inmates.

Performed emergency care on patients at prison emergency room and would transfer patients to higher-level ER’s as needed.

Outreach for Psychiatric Practice, Dr. Nestor Praderio, Geriatric Psychiatric Case Manager, Corpus Christi, TX (2002-2002)

Case managed 100 patients in six different nursing homes around South Texas, in coordination with Dr. Nestor Praderio.

Evaluated patient’s well-being and psychiatric concerns, and evaluated and adjusted medications. Patient’s diagnosis included: Alzheimer’s, Dementia, schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and Depression among other geriatric psychiatric problems.

Provided service to patient’s primary care provider regarding their psychiatric needs.

ROELL and Associates Family Practice, Family Nurse Practitioner, TX (1999-2002)

Obtained Hospital and Nursing Home Privileges and made hospital rounds twice per day.

Saw patients daily in office, or as scheduled, home visits, urgent-care patients were seen after hours or on weekends.

Learned how to do minor in-office surgical procedures including laser treatment of lesions and tattoos, removal, banding of rectal hemorrhoids, heel spurs, toe nail removals, wound care, incision and draining, etc.

Performed and dictated hospital Admissions, History, and Physical Examinations.

Responsible to make site visits at the county jail (county and federal-male and female), where I managed inmates medical care.

Bee County Hospital (Now Spohn Hospital), Educator, Beeville, TX (1994-1999)

Education for entire hospital staff including new hire and yearly general orientations, CPR etc.

Director of Advanced Cardiac Life Support for adults (first RN Director in South Texas) to organize and coordinate the offering of courses in correlation with San Antonio Methodist and Santa Rosa Hospital- initiated and developed the program to include training instructors, holding courses, including EMS and other community participants.

Coordinator/Instructor for Neonatal Recitation and Awarded National Recognition for the Neonatal Recitation for the OB department.

Overall outcome was a statistically measured improvement of training of physicians and staff of patient survival rate outcome (10%- better than the National Average).

Weekend Supervisor for Exclusive Home Health in Beeville, TX (as needed) Duties included: training all Nurses and Home Health Aids, verified all their skills, home health RN visits, as well as was on- call to manage and direct nurses.

Collaborated with other Administrative and health care professional to process and answer questions for the JCAHO Accreditation- which we passed (twice).

Built Confident Fee Based Orientation for new and current employees (at all wage levels).

Initiated and developed the yearly hospital-wide Skills-Fair Expo

Hospital marketing and community education (including health fairs, public speaking).

Served as Director of 7-separate support groups- Diabetic, Senior Citizen, Wellness, Organ Donation, Boy Scouts Of America Post, and American Cancer Association Support Groups.- where I both taught and coordinated teachers and speakers, all while continuing my position as House Supervisor at Beeville County Hospital.

Coastal Bend College, Nursing Educator Instructor, Beeville, TX (1993-1994)

Developed curriculum and taught courses for the LVN program.

Lectured, created tests, graded, and advised.

Mentored, and oversaw clinical rotations for all enrolled LVN students all while attending school to get Nurse Practitioner License while keeping my position as House Supervisor at Bee County Hospital.

Bee County Hospital (Now Spohn Hospital), House Supervisor, Beeville, TX (1991-1999)

In charge of patient care services of the entire hospital to make sure it was staffed and that resources were available.

Coordinated patient admissions and discharges, codes, life flight, pharmacy medications after hours, among many other things.

Troubleshot and solved complex problems- units included pediatrics, med. surgical, OB, ICU/CCU, and a busy ER in an isolated rural area hospital with the nearest larger hospital 80 miles away.

Bee County Hospital (Now Spohn Hospital), ICU/CCU RN Telemetry, Beeville, TX (1990-1991)

Bedside care of critical patients.

Monitored telemetry patients.

Recovered post-surgical patients.

Fountain Valley Hospital, ICU/CCU Staff Nurse, Fountain Valley California (1988-1990)

Cared for cardiac surgery patients, pre-op and post-op, in a large fast-paced Intensive Care Unit.

Specialty training included the balloon pump SWAN-GANZ monitoring device and patients on ventilators.

Took care of patients with HIV- which was a newer diagnosis at the time.

Toole Valley Home Health Agency, Chief Nursing Officer, Toole, UT (1987-1988)

Developed and managed a new home health agency

Supervised clerical staff and nurses.

Performed marketing for agency through advertising through media, newspapers, radio, public speaking, fliers and health fairs. Agency quickly grew from 2 patients to over 200.

Initiated several contracts with several insurance agencies and other entities as well as set up a program for new mom/baby post-partum checks.

Toole Valley Hospital, ICU/CCU/Telemetry Nurse, Toole, UT (1986-1987)

In charge of medical surgical unit in a small rural 30-bed hospital.

Took care of pre-op and post-op patients before and after general, obstetrical and gynecological surgeries.

In charge of Nurses Aides and other nurses RN and Licensed Vocational Nurses.

Worked in ER

Toole Valley Hospital, RN Charge Nurse, Toole, UT (1985-1986)

Supervised 2 units OB/GYN. The med./surg. populations served include were pediatric, adolescent, adult, geriatric, and the diagnosis were medical and general surgery.

Took care of patients in General surgery

Took care of pre-op and post-op patients before and after general, obstetrical and gynecological surgeries.

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Active in Lyons International

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